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Oh Jon, we hardly knew ya. Jon Huntsman's decision to drop his quest for the presidency and endorse Mitt Romney should not surprise anyone. A loss to comedian Stephen Colbert would have been the real humiliation, not the expected fourth or fifth place finish behind Romney. Huntsman's mojo, based on a strange brew of "service," obscure music references, fluency in Mandarin Chinese and the reflexive defense of China proved a bridge too far for Republican voters.

He is not a "conservative" nor was Huntsman terribly Republican. He isn't even terribly Democratic. In the end, Huntsman's candidacy enchanted only the media. They played Echo to his Narcissus. The media flitted around him, entranced by the beautiful reflection in the water...they echoed his words, believing him palatable to the masses. They were alone in the woods with the candidate who starved himself and his campaign coffers of real ideas.

Plagued by reports of unpaid consultants and an undisciplined strategy to garner any actual votes, Huntsman's candidacy was doomed to fail. He looked good on paper. Ultimately, Huntsman is a nice guy in his way but he just doesn't weigh enough.

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